Potteries accent

I don’t think I’ve ever heard such a long stretch of a genuine Potteries accent on Radio 4 before this – usually actors are attempting it from some other starting point, but here is the Real Thing, in a short story called “Pot Luck”. Final ‘ng’ is [Å‹g], intervocalic /t/ often becomes /r/ (for instance “not on” becomes /nÉ’rÉ’n/, /aÉª/ has a distinctly front open /a/, /ÊŒ/ and /ÊŠ/ are neutralised, and there is the ubiquitous term “duck” when addressing someone – anyone.